Frequent highway robberies worry Joypurhat commuters
At least three highway robberies took place in Joypurhat district in the last one week much to the concern of the commuters.
This time the members of ATN News, a private television channel in the country, were robbed in Khetlal upazila yesterday.
Police, however, recovered the looted goods including a camera, Tk50,000 and eight cell phones within two hours of the highway robbery and arrested five people in this connection.
The other two highway robberies were held in Akkelpur upazila.
Yesterday's robbery took place at around 2:00am when a 6-member team of ATN News was coming to Joypurhat by a microbus to collect video footage of 'Connecting Bangladesh' programme.
Rezawan Eureka, producer of the programme told local reporters that 15-16 robbers blocked the highway at Bottoli point of Joypurhat-Bogra highway by felling roadside trees.
Pointing sharp weapons, the robbers looted all their belongings and left the spot. However, the goods were recovered within two hours of the incident.
On November 21 night, the highway robbers in a similar way held a robbery at Kecher village point of Joypurhat-Akkelpur Road.
Nine people were arrested and two policemen were closed for their alleged negligence of duty.
Within 24 hours, another robbery took place in the same upazila at Bhikni bridge of Akkelpur-Bogra Highway.
Police quoting witnesses said 10-12 robbers, wearing masks, stopped vehicles including motorbikes, cycles, microbuses and passenger buses and looted cash, mobile phones and ornaments from the passengers.
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